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The management of the immigration centre in the Italian island of Lampedusa have been sacked, after a video was broadcast showing migrants stripping before being hosed down with disinfectant.

The decision by the Legacoop cooperation to fire its staff at the Lampedusa centre came two days after the footage, filmed by a migrant, was shown by state broadcaster Rai.

The management will be replaced “to immediately start better organization with other professionals”, Legacoop said in a statement released on Wednesday.

“Behaviour like this is not acceptable, it is against the cooperative’s ethics and so they must be removed and punished,” Legacoop said.

The response follows international condemnation of the treatment of migrants in Lampedusa, who were reportedly subjected to the hosing down with disinfectant to combat scabies they had picked up on the island.

Lampedusa Mayor Giusy Nicolini said the footage reminded her of a “concentration camp”, while Laura Boldrini, president of the Chamber of Deputies, said it was “shameful for a civil country”.

But the head of Lampedusa Welcome (Lampedusa Accoglienza), which runs the centre under Legacoop, accused the migrants of faking the footage. Those filmed had “clearly staged the images seen,” Cono Galipo said in a radio interview on Wednesday.

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